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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-04-09 00:44:48 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-04-09 00:44:48 -0700
commit018465d998a02376ba62e2de3ac707bc98322141 (patch)
treeabac78775aa4fa54a892da0ce3930ae1196da5f2 /gitweb/INSTALL
parentMerge branch 'mk/unpack-careful' (diff)
parentgitweb: fallback to system-wide config file (fixup) (diff)
downloadtgif-018465d998a02376ba62e2de3ac707bc98322141.tar.xz
Merge branch 'gp/gitweb'
* gp/gitweb: gitweb: fallback to system-wide config file (fixup) gitweb: fallback to system-wide config file if default config does not exist
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@@ -95,7 +95,11 @@ for gitweb (in gitweb/README).
by default it is file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as
gitweb.cgi script. You can control default place for config file
using GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it
- using GITWEB_CONFIG environmental variable.
+ using GITWEB_CONFIG environmental variable. If this file does not
+ exist, gitweb looks for a system-wide configuration file, normally
+ /etc/gitweb.conf. You can change the default using the
+ GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM build configuration variable, and override it
+ through GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environmental variable.
- Gitweb config file is [fragment] of perl code. You can set variables
using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end